While the Vietnamese were clearly involved in removing unis regime, mere is no doudl that the Cambodian United Front for National Salvation does have local support. Its programme will enable it to win turner acccolance as Illiteras ICYCESC the draconian measures of its predecessors.
In its communiqué, the Front PHNOM PENH, in the rush hour THE FALL of the Pol Pot government in Cambodia Despite the crocodile tears of some Western analysts (obsessed with a cold war hatred of the Soviet Union) a few left-liberals and Peking, the departure of the Pol pledged to permit people to to their villages and TOWIS Dal compulsory riages; and institute a 48-hour working week.
This last measure reduce the working time of Cambodians by getting on for 50 per cent! The Front has also promised to reinstitute ments for work carried out.
Thus there can be little doubt that for the overwhelming majority of Cambodians the departure of Pol Pot, leng Sary and mrienas will come as an immense relief.
It is ironic that a regime which refused Western aid to deal natural disasters appealing for United Nations troops to Cambodia. clearest indication yet that the Chinese extend their solidarity beyond would brave words.
Why did the intervene at this time? The HOSI pay- reason the destabilising impact of Cambodia on Indochina as a whole.
It was the Vietnamese who to Vietnam accept ворсинь is now negotiations intervene in would do the trick This latter is the appear to Vietnamese massacred.
particular important continuing Sunday. logic.
force revolution.
countryside.
Through blown up in their faces.
Socialist took the bulk of the refugees Cambodia. Tens of thousands of Cambodians fled escape the barbarism of the Cambodian For five years the Vietnamese had held back, hoping that and patience In the meantime all the Cambodian guerrillas trained by the Vietnamese to fight the United States, together with most of their leaders, were Ultimately the Vietnamese helped to organise the resistance in Cambodia and delivered the final blow last The Vietnamese-Cambodian war, the Sino-Vietnamese conflict, the Sino-Soviet dispute must, however, all be seen restraints, etc. within a broader framework. At the root of the conflict is the Stalinist theory of building socialism in one country.
The Cambodians took this theory to its most barbaric are lacking.
They proclaimed "self-sufficiency to be the driving the Cambodian They herded the population into camps in the naked coercion they transformed them into ultimate virtual slaves. They engendered a semi-mystical nationalism to provide their victims with an ideology. This has all now Challenge maintained that the central dilemma of the post-revolutionary regimes in Indochina was the establishment of organs money coming in; and cut out Lastly, a word of thanks to sources of income in Colchester the game '77, Left Overs, and collected E5 from This idea could be extended Risk, Monopoly, Class Struggle, Beat Your Neighbours out of Doors. or any other of the games people playur thanks this week to:
£0.50 POL POT - before his fall of power which institutionalised their legitimacy.
This involves the establishment of democratic plurality parties, access to a press freedom of religion, no cultura Utopian? No. It is interesting that all these themes have been discussed on wall posters on Peking's 'Democracy Wall'. It is these political rights which Given that these rights do not exist in Vietnam, it would be utopian to expect the Vietnamese or their supporters to institute them in Cambodia who But that is what Marxists must continue to argue, for the fate of those MIKE FARRELL, IRANIAN TROTSKYIST, TARIO ALI revolutions is intimately connected with the whole question of socialist democracy.
It might be unpopular to say these things in certain quarters (as it was initially in relation to Stalin's Russia and then Mao's China), but silence would be Meanwhile we can only state our amazement at the cheek of General Haig, the boss of NATO and possible presidential candidate in the United States, when he expresses sympathy with the plight of Cambodia.
For we have not forgotten invaded Cambodia, bombed it and imposed vicious and tyrannical regime in the early Seventies.
FOR THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION
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had been expected for some time. Pot government was mourned by no one.
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